Invention: The invention is a novel technique to produce carbon fibers from chemically modified graphene (CMG). The CMG is converted into a “gel” system and drawn into fibers by wet spinning and electrospinning. The resulting fibers are 3D, porous, lightweight composites.

Background: In experiments, graphene has been demonstrated to have the highest mechanical strength, high thermal conductivity, and high carrier mobility. These properties appear on a nanoscale, but the main challenge is to efficiently scale these properties for macroscopic applications of graphene.